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Our critics weigh in on local theater
By Nathaniel Eaton, Chloe Veltman and Will Harper
Published: April 23, 2008
Coronado. Dennis Lehane is the current go-to guy for gritty drama soaked in family tragedy. He wrote books that were adapted for the screen for Ben Affleck's Gone Baby Gone and...
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Sucka Free City
DA takes the blame, but feds mismanaged the money
By Benjamin Wachs
Published: April 23, 2008
The feds have been pointing a lot of fingers at San Francisco since an audit determined that the D.A.'s office accepted $5.4 million in U.S. Department of Justice funds that it...
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John Reis Loses the Brutality
By Hannah Levin
Published: April 23, 2008
John Reis has more than earned his lauded status among forward-thinking punks, via the benchmarks set by his early postpunk project Drive Like Jehu, the hard-rock swing that...
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FilmCap
The Life Before Her Eyes
By Ella Taylor
Published: April 23, 2008
Riddled with high concept, this florid adaptation of Laura Kasischke's 2002 novel is a horror picture of sorts that plays off a Columbine-style high-school shooting from the...
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Stagecap
Monkey Room
By Nathaniel Eaton
Published: April 23, 2008
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation commissioned this play as part of an initiative to explore the worlds of science and technology through theater. The result feels a bit like a...
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Feature
Best of the Fest
Our critics' recommendations from this year's films.
By J. Hoberman, Frako Loden, Nathan Lee, Michael Fox, Ezra Gale, Ella Taylor, Gregg Rickman and Nick Pinkerton
Published: April 23, 2008
Alexandra (Alexander Sokurov, Russia) Spare yet tactile, a mysterious mixture of lightness and gravity, Alexander Sokurov's Alexandra is founded on contradiction. Musing on...
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Let's Get Killed
Luie Luie stands out as a genuine oddball in a world of faux freaks
By Jennifer Maerz
Published: April 23, 2008
Today's home-baked weirdos are so commonplace it's harder to filter out the DIY savants than it is to find them. I'm regularly sent hand-painted CD booklets tied in twine, or...
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BeatBox
Berlin Beats
By Tony Ware
Published: April 23, 2008
Certain members of the Berlin-based Get Physical label — i.e., DJ/production duo and label cofounders M.A.N.D.Y. — opt for a regimented physicality leading to...
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Stagecap
Thrill Me
By Molly Rhodes
Published: April 23, 2008
In 1924, two bright and privileged young men, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, killed a boy because they believed they could get away with it. As Loeb, actor William Giammona...
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Sucka Free City
Print is dying, but Chron gets glossy new press
By Brad Kava
Published: April 23, 2008
The San Francisco Chronicle has been bleeding money for so long at a rate of $1 million a week that some analysts speculated that the paper on the edge of Silicon Valley would...
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BeatBox
Cut Copy
By Doug Wallen
Published: April 23, 2008
Australia's Cut Copy is an ecstatic burst of energy. That inertia propels a dreamily vibrant sound — chewy bass lines, teetering percussion, squeaky synths that gasp and...
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Letters
SF Weekly Letters
Published: April 23, 2008
In Defense of Bernie Ward innocent until proven pervy: I read Brad Kava's interesting piece about KGO's open slot ["The Race to Replace Bernie Ward on KGO," Sucka Free City,...
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Feature
Q&A with Medicine for Melancholy Director Barry Jenkins
Local film director gives this town a dose of its own Medicine.
By Michael Fox
Published: April 23, 2008
Barry Jenkins' terrific debut feature, Medicine for Melancholy, is an intimate and sociologically astute study of a young African-American couple spending a day together...
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Feature
Glass, Jazz, and Black Francis
Music takes the stage at the Film Fest.
By Ezra Gale
Published: April 23, 2008
That was an unusual one, because we were really equals," composer Philip Glass says of his collaboration with director Godfrey Reggio on the landmark 1982 film Koyaanisqatsi....
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Arthouse
Arthouse
Published: April 23, 2008
Artists' Television Access. "Ghost in the Reel Change": Live music with vintage shorts and contemporary films by David Michalak. Sun., April 27, 8 p.m. $6. Butterfield 8:...
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Bouncer
Thou shalt not mutter to yourself at the Sea Star Club
By Katy St. Clair
Published: April 23, 2008
And the winner of the longest dive bar in San Francisco is ... the Sea Star on Third Street in Potrero Hill. From the outside, the place looks dinky, as if it were painted by...
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